this is the perfect LoPP story: http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/352410-roy-moore-pulls-out-gun-while-speaking-at-rally

-right-wing savage who is somehow NOT backed by Trump/McConnell pulls out a gun at a rally-former boarder Pinkerton is reporting live on Alabama politics from his private Twitter and Snapchat accounts-the Democratic challenger for the seat is one Douglas Jones

64 year old married GOP congressman had an affair with 32 year old married woman he was working with. while publicly advocating a pro-life stance, he repeatedly asked her to terminate the pregnancy via text. now that her marriage is disintegrating, the details are coming out in court documents.

A few months after Akkad, Fantano welcomed another fringe figure on his podcast: Sam Hyde. Hyde is a complex person with a confusing narrative. Essentially, he was an absurdist comedian who garnered attention through his YouTube comedy show Million Dollar Extreme; last year, the show moved to Adult Swim, until it was cancelled after it became clear Hyde was using the show to smuggle noxious alt-right in-jokes and racist memes onto TV. During the presidential election, he was a prime vector for Pizzagate fake news; recent stunts include donating $5,000 to the neo-Nazi website Stormfront.

Hyde’s conversation with Fantano is horrific, offensive, and enlightening as to where both men stand. Fair warning: he describes violence toward a woman. At one point Hyde brings up Lena Dunham and explains in detail what he’d like to do to her. “I’ll take extra time, OK?” he says. “I’ll be nailing her, I’ll be punching her in the back of the neck, I’ll be boxing her eyes in. I’ll break both her orbital bones. I’m gonna destroy Lena Dunham so badly that the people that come to clean her up, they’re gonna be puking when they see what I did to her. I want them to know how I feel about her, so I’m gonna fuck her up so bad that they’re gonna puke when they see her bruised mangled body.”

You might be wondering what exactly the joke is here, but Fantano finds the bit hilarious — he laughs along without challenging Hyde. Nor does he push back when the pasty comedian says that he’s “strapped with my niggas,” or when he complains about “the government giving women a paycheck to use their pussies like ATMs and crap out kids.” Fantano just chuckles. It feels reminiscent of middle school, when one edgy kid would push the limits and bring more timid kids along for the ride — regardless of Fantano’s true beliefs on the subject of Lena Dunham’s violent death and ATM-pussies, he seems to find Hyde’s performance compelling and cool, and would never let himself, God forbid, get triggered. You can almost feel Fantano’s desire to be able to do what Hyde does.

That Fader article is a tough read. Never been one to give a shit about Fantano but that is some vile shit. I actually read it the same morning as the Buzzfeed article on Milo. Had to go for a walk afterwards.

How does that Georgia State House Rep. not kill himself after that performance on SBC’s show. I’m not rooting for that outcome or anything, I just can’t imagine him leading a dignified life after that.

WP64 wrote:How does that Georgia State House Rep. not kill himself after that performance on SBC’s show. I’m not rooting for that outcome or anything, I just can’t imagine him leading a dignified life after that.

Yeah. During the Reagan years, one of the few breaks with free market liberal orthodoxy was government subsidies for farmers. This has basically been a constant. Also, it is really interesting that both conservatives in government, but also the rock legends like Bob Dylan, Neil Young, ecc., were both equally willing to mobilize this mythic character of the self-sufficient, yeoman farmer, as if these subsidies are not going to large, capital-intensive agro-businesses and we are all supposed to pretend this is the eighteenth century.

It also worth noting that the liberal and conservative consensus on farm subsidies emerged at the exact same historical moment that black subsistence farming families and communities were being pushed off the land and were migrating into America's inner-cities. No, that is not a coincidence.